#Beer Hall Putsch

[thepopculturearchivist]

THE LIVING AGE, April 26, 1924

[pitch-and-moan]

Abendessen für Schmucks

The true-ish story of the first time Hitler tried to convince members of the Deutsche Arbeiterpartei to make him the leader of of the Sturmabteilung over a dinner at a beer hall in Munich, despite being a vegetarian and teetotaler. The film is shot as a slapstick farce, other guests brought to the dinner include a black German war veteran, a crossdressing former circus performer, a failed inventor who was a protégé of Nikola Tesla who believes he can communicate telepathically, a furry, and Ahasver the Wandering Jew.

[serendipitous-sea]

I know history repeats itself, but this fast???

[rabbuy6]

Rookie numbers.

[thesparkwhowalks]

There's this scene in A Mighty Wind, a great mockumentary about producing a folk reunion concert, wherein the concert's producer tells the director he thinks it would be great to open the broadcast with a crane shot swooping over the crowd... while they are going over the shots available based on the existing placement of cameras for the show going on in a couple hours.

The director points out they don't have a crane. The producer opines again about how great it would look. The director again says they don't have a crane. The producer acknowledges that, but continues talking about how cool it would look. The director agrees that it would look cool. They repeat that "I'm just saying" and "Yeah, that would look nice" loop a few times. The producer clearly expects that to mean something, but the unspoken fact remains that they just aren't able to achieve that shot and the producer doesn't actually have any feasible plans on how to change that.

That's what a lot of American left wing political discussions have felt like this year.

[ukdamo]

Today's Flickr photo with the most hits: this image of Hitler at the Burgerbrau Keller, Munich.

[thatswhywelovegermany]

November 9, the fateful day of the Germans in history

Nov 9, 1313: Battle of Gammelsdorf - Louis IV defeats his cousin Frederick the Fair marking the beginning of a series of disputes over supremacy between the House of Wittelsbach and the House of Habsburg in the Holy Roman Empire

Nov 9, 1848: Execution of Robert Blum (a german politician) - this event is said to mark the beginning of the end of the March Revolution in 1848/49, the first attempt of establishing a democracy in Germany

Nov 9, 1914: Sinking of the SMS Emden, the most successful German ship in world war I in the indo-pacific, its name is still used as a word in Tamil and Sinhala for a cheeky troublemaker

Nov 9, 1918: German Revolution of 1918/19 in Berlin. Chancellor Max von Baden unilaterally announces the abdication of Kaiser Wilhelm II and entrusts Friedrich Ebert with the official duties. At around 2 p.m., the Social Democrat Philipp Scheidemann proclaims the "German Republic" from the Reichstag building. Two hours later, the Spartacist Karl Liebknecht proclaims the "German Soviet Republic" from the Berlin City Palace.

Nov. 9, 1923: The Hitler-Ludendorff Putsch (Munich Beer Hall Putsch) is bloodily suppressed by the Bavarian State Police in front of the Feldherrnhalle in Munich after the Bavarian Prime Minister Gustav Ritter von Kahr announces on the radio that he has withdrawn his support for the putsch and that the NSDAP is being dissolved.

Nov 9, 1925: Hitler imposes the formation of the Schutzstaffel (SS).

Nov 9, 1936: National Socialists remove the memorial of composer Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy in front of the Gewandhaus concert hall in Leipzig.

Nov 9, 1938: November Pogrom / Pogrom Night ("Night of Broken Glass") organized by the Nazi state against the Jewish population of Germany.

Nov 9, 1939: The abduction of two british officiers from the Secret Intelligence Service by the SS in Venlo, Netherlands, renders the British spy network in continental Europe useless and provides Hitler with the pretext to invade the Netherlands in 1940.

Nov 9, 1948: Berlin Blockade Speech - West Berlin mayor Ernst Reuter delivers a speech with the famous words "Peoples of the world, look at this city and recognize that you cannot, that you must not abandon this city".

Nov 9, 1955: Federal Constitutional Court decision: all Austrians who have acquired german citizenship through annexation in 1938, automatically lost it after Austria became sovereign again.

Nov 9, 1967: Students protest against former Nazi professors still teaching at German universities, showing the banner ”Unter den Talaren – Muff von 1000 Jahren” ("Under the gowns – mustiness of 1000 years", referring to the self-designation of Nazi Germany as the 'Empire of 1000 Years') and it becomes one of the main symbols of the Movement of 1968 (the German Student  Movement).

Nov 9, 1969: Anti-Semitic bomb attack - the radical left-winged pro-palestinian organization “Tupamaros West-Berlin” hides a bomb in the jewish community house in Berlin. It never exploded though.

Nov 9, 1974: death of Holger Meins - the member of the left-radical terrorist group Red Army Faction (RAF) financed in part by the GDR that eventually killed 30 people, dies after 58 days of hunger strike, triggering a second wave of terrorism.

Nov 9, 1989: Fall of the Berlin Wall - After months of unrest, demonstrations and tens of thousands escaping to West Germany, poorly briefed spokesman of the newly formed GDR government Günter Schabowski announces that private trips to non-socialist foreign countries are allowed from now on. Tens of thousands of East Berliners flock to the border crossings and overwhelm the border guards who had not received any instructions yet because the hastily implemented new travel regulations were supposed to be effective only the following day and involved the application for exit visas at a police office. Subsequently, crossing the border between both German states became possible vitrually everywhere.

[foone]

I want you to think about this as a writing exercise, not a poll about your personal morals/politics.

So imagine you find a crashed time travel attack drone. It's got enough fuel left for one last trip: you tell it when and where, it warps through time, and now it's got about the equivalent firepower of an helicopter gunship.

So you could shoot a person, a crowd, level a smallish building, take out an entire meeting room, sink a boat, crash a plane, or blow up a car.

Where, in all of time and space, do you think would be best to send this thing to change the past?

I was sorta assuming "for the better", but if you just want to see the world burn, feel free to suggest chaotic options.

Any ideas where you'd best us this power? I mean, the obvious one is blow up Hitler. Maybe fire on the Beer Hall Putsch? That'd get him and much of the Nazi leadership as well, and all before Hitler got national headlines.

But I'm wondering if there's was a meeting sometime in history with a bunch of particularly bad people where you could take 'em all out at once for a better "return on investment".

[businesstiramisu]

hey @peripapaya guess what terrible anime movie I got to have a conversation about IRL this weekend >:D

Trying to prove a point that people DO actually like these "weird" fun campy stories.

And of course, reblogging helps the sample size blah blah blah. Reblog if you see your favorite movie and want it to win, I guess lol

[loving-n0t-heyting]

Happy anniversary to George Elser’s attempted 1939 assassination of Adolf Hitler. Elser, a carpenter, over the course of a year devised and implemented a plan to detonate a time-bomb in the pillar behind Hitler during his annual commemorative speech of the beer hall putsch. Had he not unexpectedly cut his planned two hour speech short by an hour, the detonation would have surely killed him. Elser seems to have acted alone, undetected, and was subsequently imprisoned until close to the end of the war in the hopes of staging a show trial, before his summary execution instead once Germany’s defeat was imminent

May we all be so courageous and resourceful when the opportunity presents itself

[sashayed]

doing a seance with a bunch of gay weimar ghosts to ask what they wish they'd done differently once they realized the beer hall putsch guy was absolutely going to be chancellor

update they said NOTHING, they said WHAT?, they said EXPLAIN TO US HOW THE DEAD COULD HAVE LIVED DIFFERENTLY. i said well, politically, like would you have, I don't know, written pamphlets or marched or something? and they said LOLOLOLOL. now they are reminding each other of their favorite smells and dancing in a skeleton circle :( thanks for nothing

[verbotenlove33]

A Day in Adi’s Life: 3 November 1935

Adolf Hitler at the inauguration of the rebuild and widening of the Ludwigsbrücke in Munich. This particular bridge was on the route Hitler took during the Beer Hall Putsch and was always crossed during the annual commemoration march held on 9 November. Hitler named Munich the "Capital of the Movement" as the city was the birthplace of the Nazi Party. Every component of its architecture held a special place for him and was endowed with symbolic meaning in his creative narrative and in the building up his ideal utopian state. 

[whencyclopedia]

Night of the Long Knives

The Night of the Long Knives (aka Blood Purge or Röhm-Putsch) of 30 June 1934 was a purge of the Nazi Sturmabteilung (SA) paramilitary group which continued through 1 and 2 July. Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), wary of the growing power of the SA, embarrassed by its thuggish behaviour now that he was the chancellor of Germany, and in need of the support of the German Army, which saw the SA as a rival, ordered the assassination of the SA leader Ernst Röhm (1887-1934) along with many other key SA commanders and political enemies of the new Nazi regime. Justified as a purge of dangerous plotters against the state, the Night of the Long Knives revealed that the Nazi leadership regarded themselves as above the law.

The SA

Adolf Hitler became the leader of the Munich-based NSDAP (National Socialist German Workers' Party) in 1921. The party was neither socialist nor at all interested in workers, but Hitler had chosen the name to give his ultra-nationalist party as wide an appeal as possible. Known as the Nazi party, it was also vehemently anti-Semitic and against the German establishment. The SA or Sturmabteilung paramilitary group had been formed in 1921 and was given various functions, such as protecting Nazi party meetings, distributing propaganda, intimidating voters, and attacking party rivals or those identified as 'undesirables', like Jewish people. As Hitler had said, "We must struggle with ideas, but if necessary also with fists" (Hite, 116). From 1924, the SA began to wear brown army surplus uniforms, hence their nickname the Brownshirts.

The SA's growing membership in the early 1920s had already put Hitler on the alert. He decided to create his own personal bodyguard, a much smaller but more loyal group called the Stosstrupp-Hitler (Hitler Shock Troop). Nevertheless, the SA was involved in the infamous Beer Hall Putsch or Munich Putsch, the failed Nazi coup in November 1923. After the failure of the putsch, Hitler and his leading associates were found guilty of treason and imprisoned, albeit for what turned out to be short sentences. The immediate fallout of the putsch was a setback as the Nazi party and SA were banned (temporarily), and the Stosstrupp-Hitler was disbanded. However, the publicity of the court case against Hitler and his excellent oratory skills did actually increase interest in both the Nazi cause and the SA. Temporarily called the Frontbann, there was a huge rise in SA membership from 2,000 in 1923 to 30,000 stormtroopers in 1924.

The SA's growth was overseen by its leader Ernst Röhm. A short, stocky, ruthless man, who carried impressive facial scars from wounds sustained in WWI, Röhm had been instrumental in forming the "gymnastics and sports" branch of the Nazi party, which had then morphed into the SA. As one of Hitler's oldest allies, Röhm had also participated in the Beer Hall Putsch.

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[letterstoayoungdreamer]

okay but just adding to the november 9th and jean thing

in german history, november 9th is generally referred to as "day of fate" because starting in 1848 and going all the way to the fall of the berlin wall, historic events kept happening on that date

not all of them were good, really most of them weren't, but i bet history major kevin day would have a field day with this information

(just to name a few events: 1918 saw the november revolution, 1923 saw the beer hall putsch, 1938 it was the Kristallnacht and most famously 1989 the berlin wall fell)

also something about fate and jean makes me want to fall to my knees and sob

[charlesoberonn]

November 8 this year is gonna be the centennial anniversary of the Beer Hall Putsch (Hitler's first attempt at a fascist takeover), so be prepared for Neo-Nazis and other fascists to try some shit.

[so-much-for-subtlety]

I found this 100 year old book today, which was published by the City of Boston and contains a bunch of information and statistics about the previous year (this volume was printed in 1924 and is a review of the year 1923).

It's kind of weird that it's a 100 years old, but at the same time just feels like a regular book. When I see '1923' I get confused and makes we think that it's a book from and 1990s or something.

There are some eerie references in the introduction that it's been 5 years since 'the world war' (WW2 was still 15 years in the future), but for context in 1924 these are some things that were happening:

Hitler was sentenced to 5 years in prison for his participation in the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch (he serves less than 9 months).

Fascists win the Italian general elections with a two-thirds majority.

U.S. President Calvin Coolidge grants citizenship to all Native Americans.

The Zeppelin made its first transatlantic crossing from Germany to land in New Jersey.

United States occupation of the Dominican Republic ends.

The last known sighting of a California grizzly bear is recorded.

Astronomer Edwin Hubble announces that Andromeda, previously believed to be a nebula, is actually another galaxy, and that the Milky Way is only one of many such galaxies in the universe.